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Yesterday, I was updating my laptop which was running 11.04 (I think from memory) and there was a battery problem, so then I kicked of the off again. All seemed OK and then when done, it showed Ubuntu 14.04.

However, when I rebooted I had the issue as shown in this post same initial error message

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a flash pen and was able to run Boot Repair on it. This worked well, but now when I try to boot the updated system I now get the following:

Serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for / Press I to ignore, S to skip mounting or M to manually recover

I tried Skip and Ignore. This did not work. Then I tried M for manual recovery and this sent me to a screen where I could not do anything.

Can anyone please help as i would love to get my old profile back and running the new 14.04

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  • Why not install afresh?
    – Reza
    Feb 23, 2015 at 11:04
  • What exactly does "so then I kicked of the off again" mean? You turned off the computer without doing a safe shutdown? Clearly "Serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /", so did you run the fsck/e2fsck like the question you linked had as it's first step?
    – Xen2050
    Feb 23, 2015 at 17:18
  • Not too sure if I have explained this good, will try again: 1. Performed upgrade, Battery failed (not shoutdown correctly), kicked off again (went all the way & brought up the 14.04 screen) 2. Closed down Ubuntu then booted up & got message as per link I added 3. Created a Live USB, booted from it & performed the boot repair 4. Booted laptop & got the "Serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /" message 5. I can boot into 14.04 from a previous release (Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0.0-70-generic but not without selecting Advanced Options
    – Phil UK
    Feb 24, 2015 at 1:59
  • Forgot to add that I didn't run the fsck/e2fsck as I thought that the Boot Repair tool had fixed this issue and I was getting new ones.
    – Phil UK
    Feb 24, 2015 at 2:05
  • I tried the fsck / e2fcck while logged into under the usb stick and I got the following: e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014) Warning! /dev/sda1 is mounted. e2fsck: Permission denied while trying to open /dev/sda1 You must have r/w access to the filesystem or be root
    – Phil UK
    Feb 24, 2015 at 10:02

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It looks like I have now fixed this issue after a long time going through the possible options on the Internet. I have just booted all OK into the latest version of Ubuntu on my machine, which I am happy about.

This is what i found this worked for me and worked a treat. I loved the video as I was able to follow it step by step. The first boot was slow. but I hope that this will improve after a few boots.

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